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Of course, I would have tried to keep from making sacrifices that impacted Marvel.

Regarding Marvel taking "a hit": O'Neill and Carlin were fired, and DC was welcome to them as far as I was concerned. Byrne was a loss, granted. So was Roy. Miller had become a mega-star and played the field, so to speak, working on any project anywhere that appealed to him. Mazzuchelli and Guice had no problems with Marvel as far as I know, and worked wherever it suited them at the moment. We had plenty of talent and new, outstanding talents arriving steadily. Also, it seemed to us that creators who went to DC generally didn't have the level of success they had at Marvel.

What's up with that damn Jim Galton doubting you again after he said he wouldn't?

I have to say, I'm glad this didn't happen. I consider 1984-1986 to be the high point in the history of Marvel, and had this happened, things would have, no doubt, been much different. I would have hated for John Buscema to be on Superman and not to have been drawing Avengers or Conan during that time. Byrne would have been probably doing something on a DC book, too, and his DC work never had the same magic that his Marvel work did. I wouldn't have wanted Marvel to have sacrifices made in an attempt to build up the DC line, at least initially, and that's most likely how it would have went down. Marvel's comics took a hit when Byrne, Miller, Mazzucchelli, Guice, O'Neil, Carlin, and a few others went over there when DC did their first big relaunch, and it would have been worse for me if that happened in 1984 or 1985.

Considering the amount of hurricanes that hit certain parts of the United States, I'm surprised you guys still build wooden houses. If I lived in Hurricane Alley, I'd make sure the entire house was made of bricks.

But then again, Extreme Makoever Home Edition would never work in my country.

Anonymous

As for hurricanes in Texas, were you around for Camille in 1969? I remember being stuck inside for a week–surely I reread every comic book I owned at least twice–and when my mother finally slogged out to the garden, she came back with a zucchini the size of a baseball bat (and announced it was going to be dinner).

Anonymous

We are in an evacuation zone here on Staten island, but I don't see the point of going. The basement may flood but we live upstairs. I've been through really bad hurricanes in Texas, especially when I lived in Houston, so I'm less worried than I might be. We are taking the normal precautions, but I doubt they will even be necessary.

About Me

I did my first professional comics work at the age of thirteen, selling a Legion of Super-Heroes story to DC Comics and going on to write Superboy, The Legion of Super-Heroes, Superman and other titles.
In 1978, I accepted the position of Editor in Chief of Marvel Comics under the condition that I would be allowed to improve things for Marvel’s creators. I introduced royalties and a spectrum of other incentives, rights and benefits, attracting a Who’s Who of talent.
Later, I founded VALIANT, DEFIANT and Broadway Comics and was the principal creator of their characters and universes.
Today, I’m the Editor in Chief of Illustrated Media, a custom comics company.